The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-02
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| his death the fund goes to church.
WASHINGTON, D. c., is replacing its box, elder
and poplar shade trees by naples, the Com
missioner being of the opinion that the latter
| will be less subject to tent worms and
caterplars.
A DAKOTA PAPER thus falls afoul of its hated
| rival: "a man living about twelve miles from
here died from poisoning Monday afternoon. 1t
seems he ate a lunch that had been wrapped
| in a copy of our lOathed and disgusting cOntem-
| porary and it killed him. Others should take
| warning"
| 4 BLIsTERED or sore heel caused by q new shoe
may be relieved by taking small piece of COM
| mon newspaper crushing it in the hand and
| placing it under the ailing heel The bit of pa
| per has the effect of n lift" and forcing the
foot forward in the shoe leaves the heel entirely
free from the counter.
FRANK STRAIT, q Corning, Qowa) young man,
was instantly killed by lightning on Monday
while blowing in his field. The only mark on
| his body was a dark blue spot on the side of his
neck, but his shoes and stockings were torn to
| shreds The points of the cultivator which he
| was using were melted by the electricity.
EVEN the most enlightened Mexican farmers
| still persist in using oxen of one color in the
morning and oxen of another color in the after
| noon. They don't know why they do this but
| they know that it must be the right thing to do,
| because their forefathers did it. Farm laborers
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| Sunday.
| THERE is a man in New York who has worked
| up quite a trade in the business of carving
| names upon canes. The novelty has become
| popular and has extended to all sorts of organi
| cations, so that he is now obliged to hire two
| or three wood carvcrS to do the manual labor,
| while he himself attends to the work Of procur-
| ing orders.
VOTING in Hungary is done by an open poll, las
| wa IL, al
| go to the polls in troops, wearing colors and en-
| blems. To prevent the professions from clash
| ing and consequent turbulence it is decided by
| lot which party shall vote first, the other side
| meanwhile keeping away from the hastings and
| bivouacing.
THERE is a mouse in a shop window at Ches-
ter, ILL.,, that has grown quite tame and catches
flies. The mouse has grown quite used to hav-
| ing an audience and does not run away unless
| the spectator makes Il sudden move while he is
| at work. lie is al experienced fy-catcher and
| never misses. Upon making a grab for his prey
| he sits back on his launches and calmly de
| YOURS the choice mOrSel.
| Two BALLOONS have been purchased for the
military school at Tientsin, China. The larger
one is capable of holding sixty or seventy per-
| sons and the smaller thirty persons. An in
| Structor has already arrived at Tientsin, and
| after five months practice trial trips will be
made These balloons are said to have been
| bought in Germany, and they similar to
| those which were used during the late Franco.
| German war
| a RAID on gambling house in the Island of
| Heligoland recently was followed by the impo-
| sition of fine Of $3.50 each on several persons
| found at the game, and one of $500 on the pro,
| prietor. After due notice the gambling para
phCrnalia, costly collection, wt;S placed on
| square stone in public highway surrounded
| by heaps of tarTed wood, and burned in the
| presence of a numerous attendance of islanders
and visitors
A CAT at Chico Cal, attacked a nest of young
quails the other day. She caught the mother
and was carrying her away, when the male bird
made a vicious attack upon the cat. pecking
| with the beak and striking with the wings until
| he forced the cat to surrender and release the
| female. The two birds got upon the fence and
| watched the retreGting form of the cat with evil
| dent signs of pleasure and satisfaction, and no
doubt congratulated each other in bird lingo.
A HOUSE in Little Rock, Ark, was struck by
| lightning. The fluid ran through fiue, crossed
| a room and shattered window, the casing and
| blinds By the window two bird cages were
hanging, containing canary bird and a parrot
Both birds were thrown on the floor, but neither
| was hurt. The next day the children started to
| hang the parrots cage by the window again,
| but Poll remembered the shock of Saturday and
most vehemently protested against going to her
| old quarters
A COMPANY or United States artillery, on its
way from Wilmington, Del, to New York
| stopped over night on a farm at Hilton, near
| Newark N. J. Next morning the farmer found
his stOrehouse despoiled of beer, wine, etc, and
| bottles strewn about the camp. He FASTENED to
| Jersey City and intercepted the company,
when he was assured by the officers that $35
| would be sent him to pay for the damage. He
| declares that if the money is not forwarded he
Will institute suit against the government.
THOMAS AND JOSIAH BLACK, two brothers, who
tI,a in T,d
| eloped with and married two young girls of the
name of Smith Thomas Black married Matte,
daughter of Robert Smith, and Josiah was
welded to Cora Ellen, daughter of George
| Smith, Roberts brother. They drove to Paris.
| Edgar county, Ill, together, and there the knot
was tied. The climax was capped by the mar
| rage on Saturday of Perry Allen Smith, the 10
| year old son of George Smith, to Eta Black,
| sister to Tom and Josiah.
TIE New York Express has interviewed the
son of man who used to water the milk he sup
| piled to Gen. Robert E. Lee when the latter was
| commandment at West Point. To illustrate, not
| Gen. Lees, but his fathers (the milkman'sy
| great aniabiiity the son says: Il can remem-
| Der how Gen. Lee would say, with a smile, to
my father: Now, desire you to be careful and
not get too much water in your milk. The milk
| you gave me the other day had a suspicious
| taste He said it, though, in such a kindly,
nice way my father mover took any offense.n
| A VERY tall, dignifed, stately, austere gentle
man from the East has been out lately looking
at California. He was much impressed with
our glorious climate. our very large country and
| great development in agriculture, Horticulture
| and viticultlre, but he is more impressed now
| with our wonderful small boy culture. He was
| on the train, and one of those assduous news
| boys came frequently, pressing him to buy the
| promising specimens of our journal culture
| He refused, and finally the small boy, on the
| last rebuff gazed on him for moment and said
| blandly: I've got some picture papers for them
| as can't read
| DR. Francis HUEFFER asserts that in nothing
| save natural science has the half-century reign
| of Queen Victoria wrought SO great change as
| in the love of music. He shows that the attitude
| of English society toward music fifty years ago
| was essentially that of Lord Chesterfield when
| he warned his son against the tendency toward
| being fiddler" even in the amateur sense, as
wholly unworthy of an English gentleman
This attitude he thinks is becoming extinct such
a contemptuous treatment of the art, he says
lis confined nowadays to official persons, such
as provincial Mayors, church and law digni-
taries and the members of tho British govern
ment."
"A CURIOUS little incident that occurred at the
banquet at the Middle Temple Hail." says the
Pail Mall Gazette, "shows the kind of good
feeling which makes the Prince of Wales so
popular The gallery was occupied by band,
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